This report is based on analysis of 195 on-demand services that offer children's content in 45 countries across all region. This includes services launched by TV broadcasters and new players outside of the traditional TV business.

The 2016 APAC ad market was bolstered by a robust performance of traditional media and the rapid growth of online. In this Market Monitor, we look at the market performance of top ten APAC ad markets, and the key players that shape this thriving regional ad growth.

Axiata has reported for the third quarter with revenues, boosted by currency fluctuations, rising by 2.8% quarter-on-quarter (q/q) and 7.7% year-on-year (y/y) to MYR 5.5billion ($1.23 billion). Profits rose significantly on the prior quarter but sank by 71.2% y/y to MYR 296.8 million.

Enabling payments is crucial for Messaging app platform strategies. Major messaging apps have launched mobile payments services in recent years, such as Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, WeChat and Line.This report focuses on the evolution, development strategies and challenges of messaging app payments services.

This report provides a holistic view of Android OS across the pay TV and OTT retail STB landscape - focusing on the strategies and rationale of pay TV operators who have chosen Android implementations. The report also analyses the OTT STB market and the impact of Google's current vision of its Android platform.

IHS Technology tracks economic development very closely when analysing advertising revenue. Several things happened in 2015, which had a huge impact on the global economy and affected some individual economies more than the others. IHS Technology has examined the impact of the changes in the key APAC advertising markets.

Indonesia’s state owned Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) has posted financial results for the first quarter of 2016 with strong growth continuing as internet and data service revenues accelerated past telephone services.

The digital premium large format (PLF) cinema market reached a total of 2,097 screens worldwide at end 2015 according to data from IHS, an increase of 27.0% from 1,650 one year prior. As a result, PLF screens are now installed in 1.5% of the total digital screen base, a small proportion statistically albeit representing some of the most popular and highest grossing screens worldwide

Southeast Asia is one of the fastest growing gaming markets in the world considering its large population as well as rapid growing Internet penetration. IHS, however, expects the growth to come mostly from mobile segment rather than traditional PC games market.

Calendar Q3 2015 turned out to be a bit volatile for several of the publishers in our report. While large publishers Tencent, Activision Blizzard and NetEase all reported strong growth, Electronic Arts was down over the year ago period after taking a hit on currency exchange rates and not having a title comparable to The Sims 4 which launched in the third quarter last year.

Alphabet (Google) has announced that it has struck deals with three of Indonesia’s mobile operators, Indosat, Telkomsel and XL Axiata to begin testing the balloon powered internet ‘Project Loon’ in the country in 2016.

There has been a surge in the number of giant movie theatre circuits operating over 1,000 screens. The sharp rise in the number of giant circuits is indicative of both recent activity in the acquisition and merger field but also the result of organic growth of circuits through new build construction in China.

Global box office (BO) revenue hit a new all-time high of $36.3 billion in 2014. The key driving forces were the continued growth of China and other emerging box office markets alongside ticket price inflation, according to IHS's in-depth annual review of over 70 international cinema exhibition markets.

Mobile and smartphone penetration is growing rapidly in Southeast Asia. Increased mobile penetration and smartphone adoption boosts subscribers’ demand for content, services and mobile data. For mobile operators, this provides more opportunities for partnerships with content and service providers to drive adoption of data services. For some operators, there is also the opportunity to develop in-house content and services to offer to consumers.

Over one third of cinema screens worldwide fall into the larger multiplex category of cinemas with nine to 15 screens, the most popular grouping by number of screens, according to new research from IHS analysing data from 110,000 screens globally.

Global box office reached $35.4 billion in 2013, a modest rise of
1% over 2012’s revised $35.0 billion. Given the decline in cinema
admissions during the year, the rise in revenues earned is more
a function of rising average ticket prices and the expansion
of emerging markets.